Islam is a Religion of Peace

[francisallenby]

Salaam

My name is Francis and I had the chance to meet some people from Iran during my work. They were all kind and welcoming persons, and I had them as my guests in my house, sharing my food and my drink with them, at work and at home. I have all good memories of them. Once a religious man gave me the Holy Quran, and I read it carefully. If you read the Holy Quran you will find out the truth about Islam, becuase Islam is a Religion of Peace, not of violence, of Love, not of war. I firmly believe in this, having read the verses of the Holy Quran. That is why I say that all those people using violence (members of Al Qaeda, for instance) are not good muslims, or they are not muslims at all. I have the proof of what I say in the verses of the Holy Quran, that I can quote and repeat for all the ones who want to listen to them. I hope that some of you wants to answer to my post and give me the confirmation of my beliefs.

Peace be with you all

Francis

[good logic]

Peace francisallenby.

First welcome to this forum.

I hope your experience here will confirm what you were saying in your post.

Also, there maybe more, as others will start to reply to you, for you to explore and analyse  from answers to your post.

Compare :http://www.total-loyalty-to-god-alone.co.uk/website-pages/the-journey-and-the-questions-continue/
I hope it agrees  with your findings about the Koran.

Thank you for your post.

Peace and friendship.

[es]

Salaam Francis and welcome.

May you have a rewarding journey, insh'Allah.

Salaam.

[francisallenby]

Salaam

Let me thank, first, good logic and es for having been the first to welcome me in this site. I have already checked the link and I found a lot of useful information. I want to keep on and demonstrate that those who use violence are not followers of the Truth and the Good Words, but they just do it for themselves and for material reasons. Let me tell you one thing: I can really understand the conditions of poverty of some people living in some difficult areas, and I also understand Palestinians, who were living quietly in their houses before someone came up and said that those were no more their houses: any person being driven out his or her own house would feel really bad. So my heart is actually with those people suffering for lacking of food, for poverty, for being so badly treated. I know what poverty is, and so they are all my brothers and my sisters. I do not justify, instead, people taking advantage of this sufferance and involving men, women and even children in this spiral of violence and murder.
Thank you and Peace to all of you.

[Jafar]

Salaam

My name is Francis and I had the chance to meet some people from Iran during my work. They were all kind and welcoming persons, and I had them as my guests in my house, sharing my food and my drink with them, at work and at home. I have all good memories of them. Once a religious man gave me the Holy Quran, and I read it carefully. If you read the Holy Quran you will find out the truth about Islam, becuase Islam is a Religion of Peace, not of violence, of Love, not of war.

Salam Francis...

Your story reminded me of an article that I read on Haaretz.. (Israeli newspaper) .. about an Israeli who was due to the emergency reroute of his flight, he need to spend a night on Teheran...

Initially he feared for the safety of his life.. his imagination goes wild on "What would they do if they found out that I'm an Israeli and a Jew".. As it turns out everyone including the immigration officer was very nice to him.. pretty much doesn't care whether he's an Israeli and a Jew... business as usual... Furthermore he found out that there are many Jews in Teheran! And as a matter of fact he found out that the Jews has representatives on Iranian parliament too..

The rest of his article is basically him telling the story of "We've been screwed by the lies / propaganda spread out by our government"..

The mechanism however... happened in the same manner on Arab countries.. their government/kingdom/emirates continuously spread out the 'fear' of 'israeli/jewish invasion', 'shiites invasion'  and 'western invasion'.. The intention is clear: they did that to make the presence of King, Sultan, Emir and their royal minions relevant... Without any 'danger' there will not be any need for King, Sultan, Emir and their royal minions...


Last but not least.. I want to make a little correction...
islam is not a religion...

 .. to the forum..

Salam / Peace

[es]

Dear Francis,

As seen as you highlighted the forced displacement of a people, let us then not forget to mention the Saharawi. I am sure they equally deserve a mention next to the Palestinians. The Palestinian cause seems to be an issue which generates much empathy and passion amongst "Muslims". In fact, at times, I feel like, for the mainstream "Muslims" pledging allegiance to that particular cause is synonymous with being a "Muslim". But we need not limit our humanity. There is injustice, inhumanity, oppression everywhere, not just on that strip of land in the Middle East.

Salaam.

[good logic]

Thank you Francis.

May the Lord look after you and keep you safe.

HE wants us to trust in HIM and stay loyal to HIM.
Peace.

[Student of Allah]

Shalom Aleikhem,

Welcome to the forum. The sad thing is the when you can get people to stop thinking for themselves, bad people will take advantage of mass support of the ignorant people to justify their immorality.

Another problem with most religious people is that when you attack GOD/Religion, they defend it by highlighting the role of their religion in terms of "peace, humanity, tolerance, love, care,mercy kindness, feeding the poor, justice,  truthfulness ,etc". The sad reality is that religious people just use these ideas to sell their religion to others. Look around you, you will find many people who would spend all their life's savings to go and circulate the kaaba and drink from Zam Zam, when there are children dying of hunger throughout the world.

What more can we expect from a people who thinks eating dates and keeping beard is good deeds and thus ignore the real problems in the world while they are deluded and drunk with their false self-righteousness.   

Peace
------------ Student of Allah

[francisallenby]

Salaam

Yes, Jafar, you are absolutely correct. Forgive me and forgive my mistake, please: Islam is not a Religion, but a Nation. I’d better talk about Muslim Religion or The Religion of the People of Islam. Thanks for your kindness and your comprehension.
“Without any 'danger' there will not be any need for King, Sultan, Emir and their royal minions...” That is what you write, and that is really what I wanted to write in my next message (did you read my mind?) Because the event you describe about the Jew in Iran confirms my opinion: it is all a matter of power games. The people in the various countries, all over the world, are supposed to depend on their governments (but only supposed to be). And all the governments (as you say King, Sultan, Emir and I add also Presidents) carry out their own power games. As you correctly suggest – if I comprehended properly your statements – at the basis of all this there is money, business and capitalism.  Also Student of Allah has said something of this kind. So, that is why we have wars and conflicts. Did I analyze correctly your sentences, Jafar? Is it my same point of view? Because this is really a crucial facet of the matter. I would like to go in depth as to this, because this is the main ideal of my whole life.   

Dear es, there is also Saharawi and many other places in the world where there are injustices and wrongs done: sometimes I believe that I am useless, because one man only cannot be everywhere to give even his life (I would do that for a right cause) to redress things. But here I am, and if someone would like to call me, one day, to a place far from my country and give the best of myself, then I would go. To bring peace and comfort for those who are in need. And this is another of my strong beliefs now.

Thanks everybody for the clever words: I hope that everyone has understood, by now, clearly my position, though there are – of course – many other things to talk about.

Peace to all of you

[es]

Dear Francis,

Of course there are many other people beyond the Palestinians, and the Saharawi. That was precisely my point.

Insh'Allah, we can all contribute our efforts.

Salaam.